> First I would like to point out that you do not need
> both the merge() and the persist() only the merge()
> is needed.
Yes I know the code looks not very elegant, but this came out when I stripped down the more complicated original method.
> To work around this issue there are a couple of
> things you can do. First, if you were to call
> flush() after the merge() call then the Child should
> have an ID when checked by the System.out code.
> Second, if you were to reverse the order of you
> merge(), persist() calls then the Child would have
> an ID assigned by the persist() call and the merge()
> call would simply have the managed Parent assigned
> to the managed Child
Yes, both approaches fix the problem, thanks.
> Please file an Issue Tracker issue.
Does this mean that my original code should also work?
Regards
Stephan
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